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Round Robin Scheduling

In plain terms

Giving each process a fixed time slice in turn.

Going deeper

Round-robin scheduling cycles through processes, granting each an equal time quantum before moving on, ensuring fairness. No one waits indefinitely.

Under the hood

Time-quantum size trades responsiveness against context-switch overhead; simple and starvation-free.

Examples

Time-sharing systems, fair scheduling, time slices, CPU allocation.

Think of it like...

Like passing a talking stick around a circle so everyone gets equal time.

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